Brake-connecting-rod safety guard



1929- E. G. BUSSE ET AL 1334255 BRAKE CONNECTING ROD SAFETY GUARD Filed May 14, 1927 all/ll. I

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Application at; m 14, giantess No. 191,415.

'Our invention relates to stock and conslsts 1n an improved railway rolling safety guard for bottom connections of railway rake rigging. 5

and application filed b vember 27, 1925, Seria various devices for pose.

Theobjeots of the present invention are to more securely assemble the safety guard with its carrier and with the connection rod'which it is adapted to support; topre- 16 vent rattling of the safety guard on its carrier, and to prevent movement guard along the carrier.

In the accompanying lustrate our invention-- 20 Figure 1 shows a portion and its bottom connection with our improved safety guard assembled there-. v

with.

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of a brake beam one form of re 2 is a side elevation of the same 26 safety guard showing the guard in its orig1-- nal p0s1tion beam.

Fi re 3 is a top view of guar before it is applied to 3 Figure 4 is a top view of before it is applied to the brake the same safety the brake beam. the same guard as applied to the brake beam.

e 5 illustrates a slight modification of-t e safety guard of the same general shape asthe one illustrated 4 and showing the same app beam.

Figure 6 is a side view of in Figures 1 to lied to the brake a modified aim of safety guard showing the same before it is applied to the beam.

Figur brake beam.

. e 8 is a view corresponding to ure 6 but'showing the guard applied to theof the-same.

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Figure 9 illustrates another modification M v of our invention.

In all of the forms illustrated, the guard is shown as consisting of havmg one {or more a one-piece rod U-shaped portions adapted to receive the lower bottom connec- I tion of the brake rig 3 latter in the event t at the nected from it's brake levers.

cludes a plurality of inverted U-shaped sec-- tions adapted. to receive and 'ng and to support the same is discon- Each form 1nbe supported by of the safety tionsj. forrecelvmg the bottom connection, drawings which il- U-shaped portions,

a carrier member.

lwardl facing surface on the brake beam to @hold t e guard in desired position. In the form illustrated in Figures 'the channelcompression member of a brake b'ea m--is indicated at Band is provided with "theusual brake beam strut S which mounts thez inclinedf brake lever L, the lower end of wh chis pivotally connected ,to and supports one end of the bottom connection C. It will 'ibeunderstood that the opposite end of connection 4 sponding is similarly carried by a, correbrake lever similarly mounted on {another brake beam.

extending transversely of the planes containing the lower portions of the guard. The depending legs on the inverted U-shaped portions merge with the legs of the U-shaped portions. Preferably the U-shaped portions extend diagonally across the space between the inverted U-shapedportions so that it is necessary to distort the device from the position shown in Figure 3 to the position shown in Figure 4 in order to provide sufiicient space between all of the vertical elements to receive the brake beam channel.-

When applied to the compression member of the brake beam which forms the carrier for the guard, the sides of the carrier will be engaged at a' plurality of points spaced len hwise of the carrier so that the ard is stably mounted on the carrier and will not rattle when the rolling stock is in motion.

While we show the-device as closely engaging the sides of the carrier at fourpoints, it will of the guard from the exact orm mtended, or irregularities in the sides of the carrier,

Each form includes a *plurality of-elements for engaging a downthe cross pieces 3 and 4 of whlch lie in substantially parallel planes be understood that sli ht departures may result in the engagement of the carrier by the guard at three points which will be the guard can be removed from Two or more of the vertical elements of the guard are provided with rojections 5 adapted to engage a downward y facing surface on the carrier to prevent upward movement of the guard from the position indicated. This feature will prevent the uard working upwardly until it engages and inds the bottom connection, and will revent the accidental removal of the guar from the brake beam when the bottom connection is disassembled for replacement or repairs.

When the bottom connection is assembled with the'guard, the latter is positively locked againstremoval from the carrier and before the brake beam it is necessary to disassemble the bottom connection from the brake levers and withdraw the connection 'endwise through the guard.

'vention without departing thereof, andfwe In the modification illustrated in Figure '5, the inverted U-shaped portions 6 of the guard will originally extend at right angles to the U-shaped portions 7 but the latter willbe inclined toward each other as indicalled at 8 indot-and-dash lines and must be forced apart when applied to the carrier 9.

In the modification'illustrated in Figures 6, 7 and 8, we providea single -U-shaped portion for receiving the bottom connectlon,

and each leg 10 and 11 of this U-shaped portion extends up one side of the carrier 12, and over the top of the same, and down the opposite side, and refera-bly terminates in an mturned lip 13 or engaging the bottom of the carrier.- The two legs 10 and 11 are sodisposed relatively to each other that their upper portions 14 and 15 are spaced ,longitudmally of the carrier and the vertical elements will engage the carrier-at spaced points. With this form of our invention,

there will be no need ofwelding or other wise securin together .ends of the blank from which t e guard is formed.

In the" modification illustrated in- Figure 9, the. U-shaped portions 16 which receive the bottom connection are substantially the same as those shown in Figures 1 to 4, but the inverted U-shaped' portions 17 are disposed, at right angles to each other and dia nally of-the planes occupied by the as? aped portions and ortions 17 cross each other on topvof the braEe While we have illustrated our safety. guard as applied to th e compression member of a brake beam it will b" understood that the ard may be supported upon another brake ain member or upon the spring. lank of the truck, or upon another suitab e truck part "or attachment provided for the purpose of carryin the safety guard.

Obviously ot er modifications than those shown may be made in the details of our infrom the spirit p te the exclusive embrace a carrier, said as fallwithin the scope its carrier.

2'. In a safety guard for a railway-brake bottom connection, a resilient member hav,

elements for engaging the top, opposite each other when said guard is mounted on v in skis, and bottom of a carrier at spaced points on each of the carrier sides.

3. In a safety guard for a car brake bot-- tom connection, a resilient member having elements for engaging op osite sides of a 'carrier and engaging at east one of the carrier sides at points spaced longitudinally thereof.

4. A: safety guard for a railway brake bottom connection comprising a pair of parallel inverted U-sha'ped 100 s adaptedto ard eing ormed of resilient materialwith said 100 s' disaligned from each other before app 'cation to the carrier, and U-shaped loops connecting the lower ends of said inverted U-, shaped loops and adapted to receive the bottom connection.

5. In railway brake riggng, a movable brake beam member, a br lever, a bot: tom connection for said lever, and a safety guard for said connection comprising in terconnected loops of resilient material sprung out of their original (position and gripping opposite sides of sai member at at least three said member.

6. In railway beam member guard of resilient material gaging said member at three or more points so as to be stably mounted on said member. 7. A brake beam bottom connecting safety brake rigging, a breke and .a bottom connectlon guard'comprising three or more elements yieldingly engage the sides of a adapted to carrier at points spaced longitudinally of the latter and including additionalelements for engagin the top of the carrier and the bottom of the carrier. r

8. A car brake connectin guard of mverted U-shape, each depen in portion of which comprises an upright U-s ape adapt- --ed to receive a bottom connection between its legs and includes integral projections for engagi the bottom of a carrier'to prevent upwar movement thereon.

'9. In a safety portions lyara e1 planes and support a bottom inverted U-shapedguard for a railway brake v bottom connection, a one-piece resilient rod eomprising'a pair of U-sha points spaced longitudinally of yieldingly enceive and be supported by a carrier,

' place said carrier.

ingly grip the carrier, and integral projections ondiagonally opposite vertical elements of the device for enga ing the bottom of the carrier to hold the evice against displacement on the carrier.

. 11. In a safety guard for a railway brakebottom connection, a one-piece resilient element comprising a U-shaped portion adapted to receive and support a bottom connection, and a air of inverted U-shaped portions adapte to be supported by and to yieldingly engage opposite surfaces of a carrier element on a railway truck, the legs of said inverted U-shaped portions merging with the legs of said U-shaped portion and one or more elements on said legs for engaging a downwardly facing surface on said carrier in substantially parallel diagonally of adapted to rethe legs ofsaid inverted U-shaped portions merging with the legs of said U-shaped portions, whereby the device may be distorted to disportions to yieldingly grip the portions lying plans normally extending said first-mentioned planes,

10. In a safety guard for a railway brake bottom connection, a one-piece resilient rod comprising a pair of U-shaped portions, lying in substantially parallel planes. an adapted to receive and support a bottom connection, a pair of inverted U-shaped port-ions lying in substantially parallel planes normally extending diagonally of said first-mentioned planes, adapted to receive and be supported by a carrier, the on the carrier element.'

In testimony whereof we hereunto atfiir legs of said inverted U-shaped rtions merging with the legs of said she ed our signatures this 11th day of May, 1927. portions, whereby the device may be is- EDWIN G. BUSSE.

torted to displace said portions to yield- HERBERT W. EKHOLM.

element to resist displacement of the guard' 

